General Practitioners

(asked on 22nd November 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to clinical commissioning groups on ensuring that they involve patients through Patient Participation Groups; and how he plans to monitor the effectiveness of (a) that guidance and (b) clinical commissioning groups involving patients; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 27th November 2018

The Department and NHS England have not formally defined the term ‘seldom heard groups’, which is used by Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

NHS England published statutory guidance for CCGs and NHS England on patient and public participation in commissioning health and care. A copy of this guidance can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/participation/involvementguidance/

The CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework has an indicator (50) within the leadership domain that assesses CCGs involvement of patients and the public against a range of criteria including equalities and health inequalities. The indicator is based on the statutory guidance and so provides an assessment of CCG performance in this area. The 2017/18 data is available on MyNHS.

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